People are wrong about love. They think they are altruistic because they desire the good of some other being often to their own disadvantage. But in exchange they desire wholly to possess that other being and become furious if their love is not reciprocated. Nietzsche
Of course there is such a thing as love or there wouldn’t be so many divorces. Ed Howe
Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin. Anatole France
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbour. Eric Hoffer
Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other. Carl Jung
We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love. RD Laing
How alike are the groans of love to those of the dying. Malcolm Lowry
I loved not, yet I sought what I might love, loving to love St Augustine
Love comes from blindness, Friendship from knowledge. Bussy-Rabutin, Comte de
Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love’s tragedies. Oscar Wilde
The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less. Eldridge Cleaver
We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish. le Rochefoucald
Scratch a lover and find a foe Dorothy Parker
But hatred was not an emotion he could sustain for any length of time, unless it was the obverse side of love John LeCarre
Why do we love the mothers of this life even if they were lousy caretakers ? Are we born with blank hearts , waiting to be imprinted with any imitation of love ? Amy Tan
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. G.K. Chesterton
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage. Ambrose Bierce
He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes. Buddha
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. Somerset Maugham
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned. Somerset Maugham
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person. Somerset Maugham
Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls Kahlil Gibran
Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love Kahlil Gibran
Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation Kahlil Gibran
Lovers embrace that which is between them rather than each other Kahlil Gibran
To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one suffers from notloving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy, one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness Woody Allen
I give her my heart but she wanted my soul Bob Dylan
